Greg Skodacek

“In my estimation more permanent & genuine happiness is to be found in the sequestered walks of connubial life,” Washington wrote, “than in the giddy rounds of promiscuous pleasure, or the more tumultuous and imposing scenes of successful ambition.”
― Alexis Coe, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

“Andrew thought that it was strange that humans would choose the day of coming forth from the womb as the significant thing to commemorate. He knew something of human biology, and it seemed to him that it would be much more important to focus on the moment of the actual creation of the organism, when the sperm cell entered the ovum and the process of cell division began. Surely that was the real point of origin of any person!
Certainly the new person was already alive - if not capable of independent functioning - during the nine months spent within the womb.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Positronic Man

“it is probably impossible to love any human being simply "too much". We may love him too much in proportion to our love for God; but it is the smallness of our love for God, not the greatness of our love for man, that constitutes the inordinancy. But even this must be refined upon.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Sanctifying faith is a grace of which the very life is action: it "worketh by love," and, like a main-spring, moves the whole inward man. (Gal. v. 6.)”
― J.C. Ryle, Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots